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The crisped brooks, / Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, / With mazy error under pendant shades / Ran nectar Two things: the movement of the water and the environment through which it moves. To be honest, I just adore the phrase “pendant shades”. Milton mentions shade a lot, as opposed to shadow, which, I think, would point towards the thing making the … Continue reading Paradise Lost, Book IV: Highlights

Yesterday I watched a Comic Con presentation about metaphor and philosophy in Buffy which touched upon the Absurd: the conflict between the lack of meaning in the universe and our desire to search for it. So I had this concept close at hand as I started reading Paradise Lost and, lo and behold, I have thoughts! Continue reading The Absurd (Paradise Lost I & II)

At the moment I’m reading: Paradise Lost by John Milton

For English A level I read a wide variety of texts, from Jane Eyre to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - but I didn't love anything so quickly or completely as Paradise Lost IX. Milton wields English as though it were Latin and I was caught off-guard by the intimate and authentic moments he'd carved out of his own unforgiving syntax. So, now that the exam is over and I finally have time, I'm reading the rest of the poem.

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